TRAI to push key agenda for FY18 with telcos

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will begin in January discussions with telecom and broadcasting companies to draw up and publish an ´agenda´ of important issues for 2017-18 - a move Chairman RS Sharma says will improve ´regulatory predictability´ in the sector.

Such a move is also in line with the best practices followed by regulators across the world, including the US, Canada, and parts of Europe.

´What we are proposing is to improve the regulatory predictability - we will identify important issues that would be taken up in the next financial year,´said Sharma.